Small Efforts Quotes:

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

- Pope Francis

topic: Effort, Small Efforts, God Love

All happiness is built upon small efforts.

- Hiroyuki Takei

topic: Effort, Small Efforts

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

- Robert Collier

source: Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Success, Effort, Pushing On, Inspiring Business

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Effectiveness, Important, Time Management, Small Efforts

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Effort, Empowerment, India, Small Efforts

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Small Efforts

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Time, Evil, People, Ripple, Being Responsible

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Writing, Effort, Pages, Discounts, Small Beginnings

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Inspiring, Practice, Effort, Stoves, Small Efforts

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

- Susan Glaspell

source: Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.93, University of Michigan Press

topic: Effort, Soul, Made, Small Efforts

How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

- L. Tom Perry

topic: Encouragement, Integrity, Educational, Small Efforts

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

- David George

topic: Effort, Insightful, Poverty, Small Efforts

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

- Charles Hard Townes

topic: Views, Effort, Challenges, Small Efforts

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

- Catherine Gilbert Murdock

source: Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Girl, Dream, Couple, Happily Ever After, Living Happily Ever After